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Informações importantes para a leitura das tiras cômicas a seguir.

 

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Text 19

A partir da leitura das tiras cômicas (Text 18 e Text 19), infere-se que

Leia a letra da música a seguir (o original em Inglês ou a tradução em Português), lançada em 1982 pela banda britânica Iron Maiden no álbum The Number of The Beast.

 

    Total Eclipse 
    Iron Maiden 

 

Cold as steel the darkness waits it's hour will come 
A cry of fear from our children worshipping the sun 
Mother nature's black revenge 
on those who waste her life 
War babies in the garden of Eden 
Shall turn our ashes to ice 
Sunrise has gone freezing up the fires 
Sunrise has gone numbing our desires 
Around the world the people stop 
With terror stricken eyes 
A shadow cast upon them all 
To crush them like a fly 
In the icy rain and whiplashed seas 
There's nowhere left to run 
The hammer blows of winter fall like a Hurricane 
Around the world the nations wait 
For some wise word from their leading light 
You know it isn't only madmen who listen to fools 
Is this the end, the millions cried, 
Clutching their riches as they died 
Those who survive must weather the storm 
Gone are the days when man looked down 
They've taken away his sacred crown 
To be set free, it took so long 
It's not journeys' end, it's just begun

 

    Eclipse Total

    Iron Maiden

 

Fria como aço, a escuridão espera, sua hora vai chegar 
Um grito de medo dos escolhidos que adoram o sol 
A negra vingança da Mãe Natureza 
Direcionada para quem disperdiça a vida dela 
Bebês de guerra no Jardim do Eden 
Irão transformar nossas cinzas em gelo 
O sol não nasceu, congelando todos os fogos 
O sol não nasceu, paralisando todos os desejos 
Ao redor do mundo as pessoas param 
com o terror nos olhos 
Uma sombra ao redor de todos 
Para apanhá-los como moscas 
Na chuva de gelo e mares agitados 
não existe lugar para correr 
Uma martelante queda do inverno acontece como um furacão 
Ao redor do mundo as nações esperam 
Por algumas palavras sábias da liderança 
Você sabe que não são apenas loucos que ouvem os idiotas 
"Será o fim?" Milhões gritaram 
Agarrando-se às suas riquezas enquanto morriam 
Os que sobreviveram devem vencer a tempestade 
Acabados estão os dias em que os homens olhavam para baixo 
Eles retiraram a coroa sagrada 
Para serem livres, isso demorou tanto 
Não é o fim da jornada, é apenas o início

Disponível em: https://www.letras.mus.br/iron-maiden/19284/traducao.html. Acesso em: 29 jan. 2025.

 

Em conformidade com as temáticas de impactos histórico-sociais frequentemente abordadas pela banda e assumindo que Total Eclipse aborda uma catástrofe ambiental apocalíptica, verifica-se que no trecho

Text 10

By Charles Schulz.Disponível em: https://br.pinterest.com/pin/19069998416051517/. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2024.

 

No último quadro, a fala da personagem Sally, irmã do Charlie Brown, deixa transparecer que ela

Text 10

By CHARLES SCHULZ. Disponível em: https://br.pinterest.com/pin/17592254789452327/. Acesso em: 22 jun. 2024.

 

No último quadrinho, percebe-se a mudança de tom da Lucy, personagem da tira cômica Peanuts.

 

Nesse sentido, ela deixa transparecer sua percepção de que

Leia o texto a seguir para responder à questão.

 

Are gender inequality reducing?

by Amy Reilly

 

Women face many battles in day-to-day life which has been well documented throughout history.

 

One of the things that almost every woman has had to deal with is equal pay for the same work. Although this is a legal right in the UK, it does not always come into force. Women earn 11.9% less than men on average. This is often explained by the fact that women are much more likely to be in part time employment. Although this is becoming less common, it often still tends to be the women who are left at home to deal with caring responsibilities for children or elderly family members. This is the leading cause for the gender pay gap. It has also been shown that women are less likely to seek promotions in their 30s and 40s. This has been explained for many reasons, including that they have caring responsibilities or even just that they don’t think they would be able to get it, because they are up against a man. Some employers still have reservations of promoting or even hiring women because they are worried in case they will have to provide maternity leave and cover. This is why women often suffer from the ‘glass ceiling effect’ making them believe that they are unable to progress in their careers. Although society is evolving, women are still more likely to go into lower paying jobs, for example, in the public sector, clerical or hospitality. These are often less reliable, however, they are more open to providing flexibility. Over recent years, many companies have decided to increase the number of women given promotions and there has also been legislations in government to force companies with over 250 employees to be transparent with the amount they pay to both male and female employees, meaning that the gender pay gap is reducing. There still is a gender pay gap and it will not disappear any time soon, however work is being done to improve and slowly but surely, the inequality is reducing. Overall, women are still at a disadvantage in comparison to men, although this is now more of a priority to be resolved than it has ever been.

(REILLY, Amy. Are gender inequality reducing? Disponível em: https://www.voicemag.uk/blog/14128/are-gender-inequa lities-reducing. Acesso em: 20 out. 2024. Adaptado)

After reading the text, it is true to say that its main discussion is:

 The argument for the existence of life in different places in the universe can lead to endless and aimless (but fascinating) speculation. Why assume that aliens so far advanced technologically are still bound by the chains of aging bodies? As we see our own technology advancing, and our minds becoming ever more entangled with digital devices, we can envision a kind of transhuman future whereby our mind’s essence, what we (loosely) identify with our inner self and memories, becomes immaterial, soullike, tethered to reality through information alone. In his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke speculated that aliens would have broken away from carbon-based and robotic machine structures so “that the mind would eventually free itself from matter (…) and if there is anything beyond that, its name could only be God.”

 This is where astrotheology begins, as we envision aliens as the techno-version of godlike creatures, with the obvious subtext that one day we are going to get there too. So, not only is their technology magic to us, but their very existence becomes equivalent to a supernatural presence — omniscient, omnipresent, and undetectable by our feeble human senses and machines. Such aliens are indistinguishable from gods inhabiting the heavenly realm, being as elusive as countless deities have been throughout human history. They exist only in that intangible dimension of faith.

Marcelo Gleiser. The dawn of a mindful universe: a manifesto for humanity’s future. HarperOne, San Francisco (CA) (adapted).

With the question “Why assume that aliens so far advanced technologically are still bound by the chains of aging bodies?” (second sentence of text), the author is